Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle

























Men's 100 metre freestyle
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad

Venue Beijing National Aquatics Centre
Date August 12, 2008 (heats)
August 13, 2008 (semifinals)
August 14, 2008 (final)
Competitors 64 from 55 nations
Winning time 47.21
Medalists

























1st, gold medalist(s)

Alain Bernard
 France
2nd, silver medalist(s)

Eamon Sullivan
 Australia
3rd, bronze medalist(s)

César Cielo
 Brazil
3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Jason Lezak
 United States

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Swimming at the
2008 Summer Olympics
Sample picture of the event (unofficial)
Freestyle
50 m men women
100 m men women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m women
1500 m men
Backstroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Breaststroke
100 m men women
200 m men women
Butterfly
100 m men women
200 m men women
Individual medley
200 m men women
400 m men women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m men women
4×200 m men women
Medley relay
4×100 m men women
Marathon
10 km men women

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The men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2008 Olympic Games took place on 12–14 August at the Beijing National Aquatics Center in Beijing, China.[1]


Alain Bernard stormed home on the final lap to claim France's first ever gold medal in the event with a time of 47.21.[2] Australia's world record holder Eamon Sullivan enjoyed a great start in the first 50 metres, but ended up with a silver in 47.32, just 0.11 of a second behind Bernard. U.S. swimmer Jason Lezak and Brazil's César Cielo tied for the bronze medal in a matching time of 47.67.[3][4]


Two-time defending champion Pieter van den Hoogenband finished the race in fifth place at 47.75. Although he missed an opportunity to attain a third straight triumph in the same event, Van den Hoogenband became the first ever swimmer to reach the final at his fourth Olympics. Four months later, he announced his retirement from the sport, ending an Olympic career with a total of seven medals, including three golds.[3][5][6]


Van den Hoogenband was followed in sixth by South Africa's Lyndon Ferns (48.04), and in seventh by Sullivan's teammate Matt Targett (48.20). After missing out the semifinals in Athens four years earlier, Sweden's Stefan Nystrand rounded out the finale to eighth place in 48.33.[3]


Earlier in the semifinals, Bernard and Sullivan exchanged world-record performances to set up a battle race for the final. Swimming in the first heat, Bernard delivered a time of 47.20 to erase a 0.04-second standard set by Sullivan during his lead-off leg in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay. A few minutes later, Sullivan had taken back the record in the second semifinal at 47.05.[7][8]




Contents






  • 1 Records


  • 2 Results


    • 2.1 Heats


    • 2.2 Semifinals


      • 2.2.1 Semifinal 1


      • 2.2.2 Semifinal 2




    • 2.3 Final




  • 3 References


  • 4 External links





Records


Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

















World record
 Alain Bernard (FRA)
 47.50
Eindhoven, Netherlands
 22 March 2008
Olympic record
 Pieter van den Hoogenband (NED)
 47.84
Sydney, Australia
 19 September 2000

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.



























Date Event Name Nationality Time Record
13 August Semifinal 1 Alain Bernard
 France
 47.20
WR, OR
13 August Semifinal 2 Eamon Sullivan
 Australia
 47.05
WR, OR


Results



Heats






































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 8 4 Eamon Sullivan
 Australia
 47.80 Q
2 8 5 Stefan Nystrand
 Sweden
 47.83 Q
3 7 6 Brent Hayden
 Canada
 47.84 Q
4 9 4 Alain Bernard
 France
 47.85 Q
5 8 6 Pieter van den Hoogenband
 Netherlands
 47.97 Q
6 7 8 Milorad Čavić
 Serbia
 48.15 Q, NR, WD
7 8 3 César Cielo Filho
 Brazil
 48.16 Q
8 9 5 Garrett Weber-Gale
 United States
 48.19 Q
9 9 7 Lyndon Ferns
 South Africa
 48.26 Q
10 7 3 Filippo Magnini
 Italy
 48.30 Q
11 7 4 Jason Lezak
 United States
 48.33 Q
12 9 6 Matt Targett
 Australia
 48.40 Q
13 7 5 Fabien Gilot
 France
 48.42 Q
14 8 2 Andrey Grechin
 Russia
 48.50 Q
15 9 8 Jonas Persson
 Sweden
 48.51 Q
16 7 7 Dominik Meichtry
 Switzerland
 48.55 Q, NR
8 8 Christian Galenda
 Italy
 Q
18 9 3 Yevgeny Lagunov
 Russia
 48.59
19 7 1 Yoris Grandjean
 Belgium
 48.82
20 6 8 George Bovell
 Trinidad and Tobago
 48.83
21 5 6 Martin Verner
 Czech Republic
 48.95
22 6 5 Albert Subirats
 Venezuela
 48.97
NR
23 8 1 Joel Greenshields
 Canada
 49.04
24 4 4 Jason Dunford
 Kenya
 49.06
25 6 1 Chen Zuo
 China
 49.08
26 4 5 Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or
 Israel
 49.10
27 9 1 Jakob Andkjær
 Denmark
 49.25
28 5 5 Balázs Makány
 Hungary
 49.27
5 7 Paulius Viktoravicius
 Lithuania
30 8 7 Ryk Neethling
 South Africa
 49.28
31 4 6 Peter Mankoč
 Slovenia
 49.33
32 6 3 Nabil Kebbab
 Algeria
 49.38
33 9 2 Steffen Deibler
 Germany
 49.39
34 7 2 Duje Draganja
 Croatia
 49.49
35 6 2 José Meolans
 Argentina
 49.50
36 5 1 Shaune Fraser
 Cayman Islands
 49.56
6 7 Yuriy Yegoshin
 Ukraine
38 6 4 Mitja Zastrow
 Netherlands
 49.61
39 4 1 Ryan Pini
 Papua New Guinea
 49.72
NR
40 6 6 Hisayoshi Sato
 Japan
 49.85
41 4 3 Matti Rajakylä
 Finland
 49.91
42 3 4 Virdhawal Khade
 India
 50.07
43 5 2 Martín Kutscher
 Uruguay
 50.08
44 5 3 Stanislau Neviarouski
 Belarus
 50.14
45 5 4 Tiago Venâncio
 Portugal
 50.30
46 3 2 Romāns Miloslavskis
 Latvia
 50.40
47 3 3 Terrence Haynes
 Barbados
 50.50
NR
48 4 8 Aristeidis Grigoriadis
 Greece
 50.62
49 5 8 Örn Arnarson
 Iceland
 50.68
50 4 2 Norbert Trandafir
 Romania
 50.74
51 4 7 Danil Haustov
 Estonia
 50.92
52 3 7 Alexandr Sklyar
 Kazakhstan
 51.24
53 2 6 Jan Roodzant
 Aruba
 51.69
54 3 6 Lim Nam-gyun
 South Korea
 51.80
55 3 1 Petr Romashkin
 Uzbekistan
 51.83
56 2 3 Mikael Koloyan
 Armenia
 51.89
57 2 2 Gael Adam
 Mauritius
 52.35
58 2 5 Carl Probert
 Fiji
 52.37
59 3 8 Christopher Duenas
 Guam
 52.64
60 2 4 Roy-Allan Burch
 Bermuda
 52.65
61 2 7 Obaid Al-Jasmi
 United Arab Emirates
 53.29
NR
62 1 3 Emile Bakale
 Republic of the Congo
 55.08
63 1 4 Miguel Angel Navarro
 Bolivia
 56.96
64 1 5 Sofyan El Gadi
 Libya
 57.89


Semifinals



Semifinal 1











































































Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 5 Alain Bernard
 France
 47.20 Q, WR
2 4 Stefan Nystrand
 Sweden
 47.91 Q
3 2 Jason Lezak
 United States
 47.98 Q
4 6 Lyndon Ferns
 South Africa
 48.00 Q
5 3 César Cielo Filho
 Brazil
 48.07 Q
6 8 Christian Galenda
 Italy
 48.47
7 1 Jonas Persson
 Sweden
 48.59
8 7 Fabien Gilot
 France
 49.00


Semifinal 2











































































Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Eamon Sullivan
 Australia
 47.05 Q, WR
2 3 Pieter van den Hoogenband
 Netherlands
 47.68 Q, NR
3 7 Matt Targett
 Australia
 47.88 Q
4 2 Filippo Magnini
 Italy
 48.11
5 6 Garrett Weber-Gale
 United States
 48.12
6 5 Brent Hayden
 Canada
 48.20
7 1 Andrey Grechin
 Russia
 48.71
8 8 Dominik Meichtry
 Switzerland
 49.58


Final









































































Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) 5 Alain Bernard
 France
 47.21
2nd, silver medalist(s) 4 Eamon Sullivan
 Australia
 47.32
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 7 Jason Lezak
 United States
 47.67
8 César Cielo Filho
 Brazil
SA
5 3 Pieter van den Hoogenband
 Netherlands
 47.75
6 1 Lyndon Ferns
 South Africa
 48.04
7 6 Matt Targett
 Australia
 48.20
8 2 Stefan Nystrand
 Sweden
 48.33


References





  1. ^ "Olympic Swimming Schedule". USA Today. 9 August 2008. Retrieved 14 May 2013..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ "France's Alain Bernard clinches 100m freestyle gold". France 24. 13 August 2008. Retrieved 13 May 2013.


  3. ^ abc Lohn, John (13 August 2008). "Olympics, Swimming: Alain Bernard Captures 100 Free Gold". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 17 June 2013. Retrieved 13 May 2013.


  4. ^ "Bernard pips Sullivan for 100m gold". ABC News. 14 August 2008. Retrieved 13 May 2013.


  5. ^ Linden, Julian (13 August 2008). "Van den Hoogenband hangs up his goggles". Reuters. Retrieved 13 May 2013.


  6. ^ "Ian Thorpe honours Pieter van den Hoogenband". Herald Sun. 9 December 2008. Retrieved 13 May 2013.


  7. ^ Lohn, John (12 August 2008). "Olympics, Swimming: Flash Alain Bernard Reclaims World Record in Semifinal 1 of 100 Free, Eamon Sullivan Says Give Me That Back". Swimming World Magazine. Archived from the original on 18 May 2013. Retrieved 13 May 2013.


  8. ^ Johanson, Simon (13 August 2008). "Sullivan smashes world record – again". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 13 May 2013.




External links


  • Official Olympic Report








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